#122 May 2001

A dangerous life

Man of the world

It doesn't grow on trees

The risky business of being a Christian

God in the life of Ian Hutchinson Cervantes

John Yaxley faces the financial facts

Three hundred years of saying 'yes' The faces and facts behind USPG as they go'fourth' to share God's goodness through partnership in word mission. page 10 and 11

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Did you know that church members outnumber members of the main political parties in the area covered by the Oxford Diocese? A General Election pack, prepared by our Board of Social Responsibility, provides some hard hitting questions for your candidates membership in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire exceeds the total membership of the three main parties in the same area says the Diocese of Oxford. So Christians can make a difference to the forthcoming general election campaign.

During the campaign Christians will be able to test their candidates on issues raised by the Churches, thanks to a General Election Pack compiled by the Oxford Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility.

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JULIA JAMES, a vet in practice in Didcot, takes a few moments off to keep an eye on some of the 200 beef cattle at Uptown Farm, Sutton Courtenay owned by her parents. Like all rural vets, Julia has been exceptionally busy since the start of the Foot and Mouth outbreak. 'The partners haven't had a day off since it began. When any animal is moved from a farm, the vets have to first give it a licence to confirm the animal is free from Foot and Mouth,' she said. Julia, who is a member of All Saints, Sutton Courtenay and also attends Christ Church Abingdon, added: 'There is a real need to pray about how to deal with this situation that is causing so much heart break'. Churches are responding to the crisis in a variety of ways. On 2 April the deaneries of Claydon, Mursley and Buckingham held a prayer vigil in St Laurence Church, Winslow for the farming community and all those affected by the outbreak. The special prayers issued by the Arthur Rank Centre, Stoneleigh, PILGRIMAGES CANCELLED SEE PAGE 3 were read every hour on the hour and trained listeners were on hand for people wanting to talk.

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Not party political The 27-page pack covers issues such as Asylum and Immigration, Criminal Justice, Race, Education, Housing and Rural Issues.

'The pack is in no way party political' says Mrs Jo Saunders, Social Responsibility Officer for the Diocese. 'It highlights some of the current issues on which voters should ponder when deciding how to use their vote.'

'We may think that one vote does not count for much. However, when we consider that those who worship in the mainline churches each week outnumber the membership of the main political parties, we do have an excellent opportunity to bring Christian thought and values to bear and to influence our society' she said.

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principles by which to test the policies proposed by the various candidates. These are: • The sanctity of the individual • The strength of community • A long term vision of justice and equality • A moral standard • A serving government committed to enhance the quality of life for all.

Asylum and Immigration Following these principles the pack has detailed and hard hitting questions on each subject area covered.

For example on asylum and immigration the Diocese asks: 'Does your party consider it reasonable to detain, without charge, for indefinite periods, asylum-seekers who are not the subject of any criminal investigation?'

On criminal justice the Diocese asks: 'Do you consider that the decriminalisation of some drugs would be acceptable?'

The pack also includes guidelines for planning meetings and briefing papers on asylum and immigration, regionalism, and crime and punishment. The latter concludes: 'We the taxpayers own the prisons. We cannot lock people away and forget about them.'

The Diocese's Election pack is available in full from Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ON B or it can be accessed from the Diocesan website www.oxford.anglican,org/election

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A dangerous business ALTHOUGH this article is for the May Door I am writing it at the beginning of Holy Week. All the familiar themes and feelings are beginning to emerge again, as we are invited to travel with Jesus from the excitement of Palm Sunday through the pain of Good Friday, to the victory and hope of the Resurrection.

This year, though, I feel a strange unease with their familiarity. Obviously I believe they are central to Good News that God has given to us, and yet these great promises seem to have become domesticated and formalised. They are controlled by the Church and Christians instead of motivativating our hearts and minds.

Coming Kingdom There was great significance for Jesus in the last meal which he shared with his disciples.

His whole life had been driven by his desire to do his Father's will, and he saw this focused in the bringing of the Kingdom.

For him, the Kingdom was the possibility that ordinary people could be transformed by the extraordinary love of a heavenly Father. This love was for all, but had a particular meaning for those who were marginalised and outcast from society. His whole ministry and life had been devoted to the demonstration of this Kingdom, but underlying it all had been the certainty that the Kingdom could only come in its fulness by means of the sacrificial offering of himself upon the cross. The last supper was but a foretaste of that great heavenly banquet where all who would respond would find a welcome and a place.

Kingdom of service Whilst the offering of himself upon the cross was Jesus' supreme and defining moment of self-giving, that golden thread had been woven into the whole of his life. The Kingdom he proclaimed and

demonstrated, only had integrity and authenticity because the King lived by its principles and came as a servant. As a servant he sought the lost and hurting. As a servant he healed the sick and broken. As a servant he challenged the status quo, and as a servant he called others to be servants in and for the Kingdom.

If service is at the heart of the life, death and resurrection of

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Jesus, then it simply follows that service must be at the heart of the disciple and of the church. It is exactly at this point that the integrity of the new Kingdom ushered in by Christ is questioned and found wanting - so frequently motivation lies not in the desire for service, but rather in the longing for power and status. This is no new 21st century phenomenon. It has always been like this and the challenge of the Risen Christ is that we are to seek the way of the cross and hence the way of service.

This is no easy call. The only way in which we can discover the willingness and ability to live the life of service is as we daily encounter the Risen Christ, and allow him to give us the courage to model our lives on his. It is interesting that in his letter to the Philippians Paul speaks of his meeting with Christ enabling him to dare to share his suffering and even his death.

Whatdoes it mean to share the cross of Christ, and to become like him in his death?

This is an interesting and intriguing question. For many Christians down the centuries it has meant literally dying for Christ, and this is a very jeal prospect for many of our

brothers and sisters today across the world.

But it must also have a resonance for us in Britain and in the Oxford Diocese. Maybe sharing in the death of Christ means we learn to be vulnerable, have a willingness to risk everything, and live by the possibility that God is as Jesus has shown us, and is longing to be involved in our lives and the life of creation. Certainly death on the cross was for Jesus a vulnerable and risky business, and he only had the courage to walk that path because he believed that somehow his Father was in the process and could be trusted.

It was a step of risky faith.

Life at work in you What does all this mean in the context of Sharing Life? If Sharing Life is simply a process whereby we hope to keep Church as we have known it on track, then an exploration of the themes of Holy Week and Easter has nothing to say at all. However, Sharing Life divorced from such roots will have nothing of value to say and will soon run out of energy and into the ground. If, however, it is deeply rooted in the model of Jesus and Christians seek to live a vulnerable, risky discipleship, then we will begin to find ourselves living afresh the way of. servanthood.

For some, perhaps many, within the life of the Church, change is a dangerous business. We want to cling to what we know. However,if we do that, it may well be that many who long to know life will never be able to receive it. As we learn to die to our wants and demands, we may discover that life is being renewed in us, life which is authentic, full of integrity and attractive, life which is there because it flows from the servant heart of the Servant King.

Canon Chris Neal is the Diocesan Director of Evangelisation

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Double honour for Diocese dentiary Canon of Christ Church and distinguished Biblical scholar and the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a Fellow in Animal Theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, and author of many books.

TWO theologians in the Oxford Diocese have been awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

They are the Revd Canon John Fenton, a former resi-

Resources for a caring Church FROM 15 - 18 May Sandown Park in Esher in Surrey will be taken over by the Christian Resources Exhibition, whose theme this year is 'The Caring Church'.

Among the speakers will be Professors John Barton and

John Muddiman from Oxford, talking about 'the delightful and challenging task' of creating the new non-denominational Oxford Bible Commentary.

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Good churchyard hunt The Ecclesiastical Insurance Group is to mount a nationwide search to find the best kept churchyard in England and Wales - with a prize of £1000 for the finest example.

Keeping the grass trimmed and the hedgerows pruned will not be enough to scoop the top prize

- churches will need to demonstrate that they have given consideration to recycling and the creation of preserved areas where wildlife can thrive. The deadline to reister is 31 July.

For more details and an infor'mation pack contact Laura Jackson on 01452 334548

Sharing Life Prayer Gracious God, For the gift of life With all its struggle and great opportunity I give you thanks

Cathedral farewell for Martin Peirce THERE will be a special Evensong on 26 June 6pm at Christ Church Cathedral for Canon Martin Peirce on his retirement as the Diocesan Director of Ordinands. All are welcome but it would be helpful if you would let Christine Lodge at Church House know

For Jesus the life-giver In whom we have life .with you, now and forever I give you thanks For the Holy Spirit Making us alive with his life I give you thanks

in advance if you are coming on 01865 208222.

If you want to contribute towards a gift for Martin, send a cheque to Edith Sanchez at Church House made payable to 'ODBF Administered Funds' and marked 'Martin Peirce' on the back.

In praise of Peacocke

Open me to that Spirit And renew your Church, That we may share your life with others.

Draw them into your love And transform your world.

Amen

At the age of 76 The Revd Canon Professor Arthur Peacocke has won thehe Templeton Prize for Progress Templeton in Religion. He lives in Oxford, is an ordained scientist and is the author of many books including Paths from

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\ews Remarka oe' sup oort for Dorchester Abbey appeal

Amanda Sykes shows some of the Jwellry she has made for the Dorchester Abbey Appeal to (I to ,-): the Bishop of Dorchester, the Lord Lieutenant of Photograph: Frank Blackwell Oxfordshire and the Rector of Dorchester.

DORCHESTER Abbey is much loved. Its five million pound restoration fund has passed the halfway point lust a few months after its launch. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Carrington are amongst the contributors. So too is a 14-year girl confined to her home by illness.

The appeal, whose aims include the completion of -major essential repairs and the development of the Abbey for community use, has reached ÂŁ2.6 million. It is, says Hugo Brunner, Lord Lieutenant of

Help at hand for children in custody IT IS every parent's nightmare - a phone call telling of a loved son or daughter held in custody by the police. Imagine if you were unable to rush to your child at the police station. Who would help him or her? In Reading a group of willing adults, members of the Appropriate .Adult Volunteer Service (AAVS) can stand in for a parent, guardian or carer.

Supported by the police and working closely with the Youth Offender Team, AAVS members are trained in custody process, codes of practice and police interviewing procedures. They contact the young people in custody, help them understand their rights and support them at interviews.

This service is beginning in Oxford and PACT (Parents

and Children Together - the co-ordinating agency) needs volunteers to become members of the AAVS. The work is fulfilling and not onerous.

Enquiries are welcomed from anyone over 18 who is sympathetic to young people and can spare a few hours each month.

In the first instance, telephone Paul Booker on 01865 208200 or write to PACT, Church House, North Hinksey Oxford, 0X2 ON B.

Pilgrimages cancelled because of epidemic USPG'S tercentenary celebra-

tions have been affected by the Foot and Mouth outbreak.

The main route of a pilgrimage planned from Sheldon in Warwickshire to St Paul's Cathedral would have brought the pilgrims through the Diocese along the Oxford Canal and the Thames.

The epidemic means that much of the walking route has been closed. 'Fortunately our plans included a group of narrow boats. The canals have been reopened to navigation so this part of the pilgrimage is likely to go ahead,' says Cohn Cockshaw, USPG's local mission adviser.

'We plan to walk through

London to St Paul's visiting places associated with USPG's history. We also hope that local walks can be planned through built up areas where there is no risk of spreading the disease,' said Cohn Cockshaw. He hopes that local events and services in Banbury, Oxford, Dorchester, Henley and Chalfont St Peter will go ahead. See also pages so & ii Birinus Pilgrimage The 25th St Birinus Pilgrimage walk and service planned for 8 July has also been cancelled because of the foot and mouth epidemic. Instead the afternoon and evening of that day will be devoted to an open

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meeting, a bring-and-share tea and a special ecumenical service at Dorchester Abbey, all focussed on 'What can we learn from the farming crisis?

What is the way forward for the countryside?' All concerned about farming and rural life are most welcome to attend, says John Crowe, Rector of Dorchester At 3pm Christopher Jones, a farmer in Northamptonshire, who helped set up the Farm Crisis Network, will introduce the discussion on the future of farming in the UK. A special ecumenical act of worship at 5.30pm will include prayers for the current rural crisis and all affected by it.

Oxfordshire and the Appeal's chairman 'a remarkable achievement that will enable what is reputed to be the coldest church in Oxfordshire to begin installing better heating in preparation for the coming winter. But we still have a long way to go before we can complete the fundraising, and the heating is only the first in a long list of necessary repairs.'

Among the hundreds of local residents who have added to the appeal fund is 14 year old Amanda Sykes, who despite suffering from ME, has created and sold a range of jewelhy in

Women for evangelism

FROM time to time most industrial chaplains find themselves

WOMEN IN MISSION', an initiative supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury and set up by Rosemary Green, held local conferences at churches in Burford, Basingstoke and Oxford. The theme of the three events, which attracted 300 women in all, was 'Sharing your Faith: evangelism as you can, not as you can't'.

Debbie Flint, a member of St Aldate's Church, Oxford spoke 'superbly' on 'Mary, Martha and Mission' and there were seminars on subjects such as being a Christian wife and mother in a nonChristian family.

'These women have been encouraged, enabled, and equipped to share their faith in the communities in which God has placed them. Women in Mission is an ecumenical organisation avidly avoiding a jams and jelly image!' said the Revd Penny Joyce of St Clement's, Oxford.

being asked to do unusual things. Recently the Reverend David Moore, the City Centre Chaplain in Milton Keynes, was asked to organise an inter-faith dedication ceremony for a new office block in the city. The invitation came from Christopher Johnston, a member of the Church of England and the managing director of Personal Group Holdings Plc. On 19 April the building was named as John Ormond House, after a founding director of the company, who died last year.

Those taking part in the dedication represented the Jewish, Baha'i, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and Christian faith communities in Milton Keynes. Finding suitable material, people to take part and producing a format which made sense to those concerned was were the main challenges says David Moore. The Jewish representative blessed the threshold in keeping with their tradition of placing a mezuzah on the doorpost of the home; readings from Baha'i scriptures and from the Holy Quran celebrated the virtue of godliness, generosity and reconciliation. The Roman Catholic Dean said the prayers of dedication, while a Hindu representative contributed celebratory music and dance.

Sikh prayers with stunning imagery provided a rich climax.

'Milton Keynes has a reputation for innovation and and this event set a new benchmark for the future.' said David Moore.

Oxford Diocesan Cricket Team Maly 9 Oxford v London at Harefield Cricket Club 11 Oxford v Birmingham at Bloxham School *June 18 Oxford v Southall at Banbury Twenty Club June 21 Oxford v Bicester and North Oxford at Chesterton

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the baptism of the pagan King of Wessex, King Cynegils, became one of the most important centres of Christian mission is Saxon England. The Abbey therefore has a special place in the affection of all Christians and is already used by local Roman Catholics for Confirmations and first Communions. Another aim of the Appeal is the restoration of the South Chapel with its St Birinus Shrine as a focus for ecumenical celebration, pilgrimage and prayer.

See also Pilgrimages cancelled below left

Six- religions help to dedicate office block in Milton Keynes

BISHOP OF OXFORD The Right Revd Richard Harries,

The Door is published ten times a year. 40,000 copies are distributed in the Diocese of Oxford with the help of volunteers.

aid of the Abbey appeal. Her father, wine importer Anthony Sykes, has sourced two excellent French wines which are being sold in aid of the appeal with a Dorchester Abbey label.

An unexpected encouragement for the Abbey has been the discovery of the foundations of the first Saxon Abbey Church at Dorchester. They were unearthed during the exploratory archaeological investigations that have had to taken place before the first phase of the work can begin.

The ancient Abbey Church founded in 635AD, following

Bishop of Dorchester The Right Revd Cohn Fletcher, Arran House, Sandy Lane, Yarnton, Oxford 0X5 1 P B Tel: 01865 375541.

Fax: 01865 379890. E-mail: bishopdorchester@oxford.anglican.org Archdeacon The Venerable John Morrison, Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP Tel: 01865 204440. Fax 204465.

E-mail: archdoxf@oxford.anglican.org ARCHDEACONRY OF BERKSHIRE

Bishop of Reading The Right Revd Dominic Walker, OGS, Bishop's House, Tidmarsh Lane, Tidmarsh, Reading RG8 8HA Tel: 01189 841216. Fax: 0118 984 1218.

E-mail: bishopreading@oxford.anglican.org Archdeacon The Venerable Norman Russell, Foxglove House, Love Lane, Donnington, Newbury, Berks RG14 2JG Tel: 01635 552820. Fax: 01635 522165. E-mail: archdber@oxford.anglican.org ARCHDEACONRY OF BUCKINGHAM

Bishop of Buckingham The Rt Revd Mike Hill, Sheridan, Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 9BD Tel: 01494 862173. Fax: 01494 890508.

E-mail: bishopbucks@oxford.anglican.org Archdeacon The Venerable David Goldie, 60 Wendover Road, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 9LW Tel: 01296 423269. Fax: 01296 397324.

E-mail: archdbuc@oxford.anglican.org PROVINCIAL EPISCOPAL VISITOR

Bishop of Ebbsfleet The Right Revd Andrew Burnham, Bishops House, Dry Sandford, Adingdon, OX13 6.JP Tel: 01865 390746 E-mail: bishop.andrewebbsfleet.org.uk

*June 25 Oxford v Derby at

Banbury Twenty Club July 20 Oxford v Chipping

Norton at Chipping Norton All dates with * are Church Times Cup cricket matches. Details from the Secretary, the Revd Tom Moffatt 01635 862616

For details of future local meetings, contact Penny Joyce on 01865 790837 email penelope.joyce@virginnet.co.uk She would be particularly interested to hear from people in the High Wycombe, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes areas who might like to organise a local event, serviced by the Oxford WiM network.

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Educating the drinking club through Christian Aid

ACET (AIDS Counselling Education and Training) is a Christian Aid partner in Uganda. One of the ways they get their message across is to visit drinking clubs in the villages and towns and discuss HIV/AIDS issues with members. The pot in the drinking club pictured contains millet beer. The 'straws' they are using can be up to six feet long and are made from reeds.

Christian Aid week begins on 13 May. Among the events in the Diocese are a concert by the Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir in Abingdon's Trinity Church on the 12 May at 7.30pm. Christian Aid are also involved in Oxford's Drop the Debt Day on 12 May. The day is part of a worldwide movement calling for total cancellation of unpayable debt for the world's poorest countries at the GB Genoa summit in July.The full programme (in The DOORPost), will start in Oxford's Broad Street with a parade of African drummers and includes a 'Beat the I M F and World Bank' tug of war.

For further information about Christian Aid's work, contact: Christian Aid, Oxon and Berks 01865 246818 email plangleychristianaid.org or Christian Aid, Milton Keynes, 01908 608135.

Diocesan pilgrims reroute to Greece

'House full' for Mother's Union commissioning IT was standing room only at St. Peter's, Earley on Monday, 26 March as Mothers' Union members gathered from all over the Diocese for the commissioning of Felicity Randall as their Diocesan President.

Appropriately the commissioning fell on Lady Day and this was the theme of the sermon by the Revd Antonia Cretney, the MU Diocesan Chaplain. She pointed out how Mary, in her acceptance of God's will, becomes an example and icon of service.

Bishop John Bone presided at the Eucharist, as well as commissioning Felicity, and other MU members. Those leading the prayers also reminded us of the world wide members who were united with us, Afterwards the 400 strong congregation enjoyed a celebration tea, punctuated by announcements for the the 'Aylesbury bus', Maidenhead bus' and so on. It was altogether a joyful occasion and an affirmation of the MU's role in the wider Church.

Derek Spears Vicar of St Peter's, Earley

How to manage on £3,500 or £300,000 a year

by Barbara Hayes, Director of the Oxford Industrial Chaplaincy from Oxford Industrial Chaplaincy, People and Pay in Oxford, gives an important insight into the range of experience of people working in the city. People earning between £3,500 and £300,000 p.a. were interviewed and the edited transcripts form the bulk of the report. To put these experiences in context the opening section provides data on employment and pay levels in Oxford. The interviews are followed by some drawing out of themes and suggestions to different sectors, including the church, of how they might respond. The stories themselves are fascinating and the whole is a 'good read'.

Churches can use the material in study groups and worship as well as considering the suggested responses. Although some material is specific to Oxford the stories will resA REPORT

onate with peoples experience across the UK. The following extracts give a flavour:

I live with my parents. There's no way I could do it living away from home.,

Chief Executive £300,000 p.a.

'I'll probably keep working until I fall over. Hopefully in five years I'll be sitting here, doing this and if I'm good at it the company will be a success, the kids will be growing happily, and IT stillbe happy, being the best person I can be. It's awful living life on the deferred happiness plan. I don't believe in that.

I can let work dominate but I can choose. Now I can say 'No' because I don't want to. That's the real luxury.'

Teacher £28,000 p.a.

'I feel I definitely get paid what I'm worth in this school but it's nigh on impossible to find somewhere nice to live in Oxford. I've been here three years and I've moved six times various reasons. for Accommodation in Oxford is nightmarish, absolutely nightmarish. You'd be surprised how often this conversation comes up. Schools need to cop on to that a bit and realise they're going to lose good teachers.

People move away because of the housing situation.'

NVQ Trainee £3,500 p.a.

'I get about £70 a week. My wage is so low I don't pay tax or national insurance so I don't get statutory sick pay. If I don't work I don't get paid. It also affects job seekers allowance and state pension and things. I think that's right. I don't have to worry about budgeting because

Copies of People and Pay in Oxford can be obtained from Oxford Industrial Chaplaincy do New Road. Baptist Church, Bonn Square, Oxford OX1 1LQ. it costs £2.00 plus 54p p&p. Cheques to 'Oxford Industrial Chaplaincy'.

St. Michael's and All Angels, Amersham Hill

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The Bishops of Buckingham and Reading will lead a Diocesan Pilgrimage to Greece in September. It replaces the Pilgrimage to the Holy Land which has been cancelled because of the uncertainty political situation.

Bishop Dominic writes: 'St Paul was the first missionary to bring Christianity to Europe and we read in the Acts of the Apostles of those early missionary days and the churches being established in Greece and elsewhere. In the Steps of St Paul, we shall visit such Biblical places as Thessalonica, Philippi, Delphi, Athens and Corinth to see where the early Christians lived and to reflect on Paul's letters to those communities. The pilgrimage will include visits to monasteries, time to enjoy modern Greek culture and a chance to see a country that is the birthplace of classical civilisation and a missionary church.

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OUR APOLOGIES 105 TIMES OVER We apologise for an error in the April issue of The DOOR. It was Miss Nancy Hunt not Miss Olive Hunt who was 105 on 23 February 2001. She is a retired shoemaker who continues to enjoy good health in St John's Home, Oxford.

Ruth asks how can CCOW help RUTH Parkyn, the new Co-

ordinator of Christian Concern for One World hopes to discover where further areas of development education are needed in the Diocese through a survey.

Churches are being asked asking what support from CCOW a church would like.

There will be questions on what support if any they give to organisations like Christian Aid, CMS or Wells for India.

Ruth, who was commissioned in February says: 'We are intent upon working as partners. The aim is to have a clear idea about what is already being done and to work in places where little is bng done and to offer support where good work is already taking place.'

Ruth gave up job as a primary schoolteacher in Solihull to go to Zambia through the Catholic Missionary Voluntary Movement. Her official role was to teach maths but soon after her arrival she was asked to become the matron (feminine form of patron!) of the Anti-Aids club.

With a group of her students she toured remote bush areas with a presentation about the dangers of AIDS. 'The richness of the experience of living in the TwoThirds World never leaves you - the unquenchable positive vibrancy of the people's spirits surroi nded by utter poverty.

Since in :eturn, I have tried in a small way to remember this'.

CCOW will continue its work in Third World development education in Berkshire, Bucks and Oxfordshire. Ruth can be reached at CCOW's new base at St Mary's Church, St Mary's Square, Aylesbury, Bucks, H P20 2JJ. 01296 393839.

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Sir William moved into Observatory House in Slough in 1786 and attended St Laurence's until his death in 1822, aged 84. He is buried in a vault inside the chancel. , A bequest of £10,000 was left to the Diocese of Oxford in 1997, by a Miss Cruickshank, whose will specified that it was for a window depicting the solar system. St Laurence's was awarded the bequest. Miss Cruickshank wanted a window to inspire us to wonder, with the psalmist, 'when I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars' (Psalm 8) said the Rector David Miell.

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TRANSFORMATION is a theme which runs through the life of Ian Hutchinson Cervantes. Born in Washington of a New Zealand father and a Guatemalan mother,he has lived in a number of countries and has been transformed in some way by each of them. His close family life, his faith and his Church have given him a firm centre of gravity. So too has the Oxford Diocese who, acknowledging his commitment to the transforming work of mission, sent him as a missionary to Latin America He now acts as a bridge for the Latin American

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MY STORY begins with the meeting of my parents in Washington - two cultures, two denominations, two very different people. My father, a New Zealander, was from an Anglican family which goes right back to the English Reformation. My mother's Guatemalan family has an equally strong Roman Catholic legacy. How do you make sense of that and what is the centre of gravity? To discern that that has been a life long struggle.

My mother was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for marrying an Anglican and my parents had to work through that, if anything they became more committed and made sure that we had a strong Christian upbringing in the Anglican Church. Yet we had a very rich mix of things at home. My grandmother, a staunch Roman Catholic, lived with us for a time and images come to mind of her lighting votive candles, her love of the Saints and bringing out her rosary. I realise all of that held the family together and allowed the other task of sorting out identity to take place.

But my real awakening took place at university, when I really went through a crisis of identity. I had left Latin America and I hated being in New Zealand. I was shocked for example that many of my contemporaries there expected to leave home after finishing school at 18. To me that was shocking, terrifying because it was being cast out instead of linking your identity to a family 'I am because we are'.

At that stage I had taken leave of the Church because it wasn't answering questions. But then I

had a very curious experience.

One Sunday in New Zealand I ended up going to St Luke's, an Anglo Catholic church which my parents had frequented. As I walked in there was a strange mixture of incense and tobacco smoke. There were five men clustered around the doorway puffing away like mad and looking troubled. I asked the priest about them. 'Ah yes' he said 'those are people from the local psychiatric hospital. We are the only parish in the city to which the hospital recommends its schizophrenic patients because they know that they will be never turned away.' And I thought hells teeth if people with really serious problems can find a home there maybe I can too. I was suddenly given a vision of the Church that was for everybody - a gathering of God's broken people and that memory has been with me ever since.

I was destined, so I thought, to follow in my father and grandfather's footsteps and to be a forester but people began to say 'have you thought of the priesthood?'. I remember the day when I woke up and thought: 'if it's meant to be it's meant to be but I don't know how to receive it. I'll have to hand it over.' And an extraordinary peace and joy came at that point. I had been granted a vision of the Church and now I was being asked to respond. I had found my centre of gravity.

One of the themes in my life is the Divine sense of humour the unexpected. I came to Britain to do some more studies in the area of development with a view to returning to Honduras. My first Sunday I got up at 6am and walked the streets of Reading looking for a

parish church. I found myself at St Giles a little before ten and smelt incense. Canon Tony Boult, the parish priest came out, and I said 'I can smell incense. Is mass over?' And he said 'My dear that's from last week' and I thought 'I've

arrived!'. He was a deeply spiritual parish priest and when I spoke to him about that uncomfortable feeling of being called and asked to respond, he understood and before I knew it I was being lined up for an ACCM and at the beginning of 1986 found myself at Westcott House Cambridge.

When I finished at Westcott, I said to Martin Peirce, the Oxford Diocesan Director of Ordinands, I would love to give something back because the Oxford Diocese had taken a

risk and paid for my training. So the offer of a curacy at Iffley was made and what a blessing that was. But it was always my intention to go into missionary work.

I met Raffaella in Oxford at a day of prayer and fasting in solidarity with the people of Peru

and six weeks later proposed. We were married a year later A short time after that we went to the College of the Ascension in Birmingham and then came back for our commissioning at Dorchester Abbey. USPG doesn't send missionaries, it facilitates the sending. It is unique in that sense. The whole idea was that we were sent out from the Oxford Diocese and all the time we were in Central and South America, it was so good to receive letters from Iffley and

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the number of parishes in the Oxford Diocese who also supported us. It gave us a sense of belonging and it meant a lot especially when we were in Venezuela and it became clear that it wasn't going to work out there. In theory I was heading up a theological training programme and Raffy was working with street children. But for the first time we encountered corruption in the Church in a blatant way. However the way God kept grace and love flowing despite that was an important discovery.

We ended up in Belize in the Province of the West Indies.

When the USPG job in London came up I went to see the Bishop of Belize, and asked him what he thought. He said 'I would hate to lose you but my frank view is that you would be more use there makr ing our voice heard.' It happened at just the moment when USPG was embarking on a transformation in its way of relating to the overseas Churches. There was a real sense of wanting to hear their voice. The Society had already committed itself to the process of regional consultations. The next stage was to have staff members who knew the regions of the world intimately.

That for me was the clincher. I wasn't interested in pushing paper. I was interested in making known the experiences of the Churches in Latin America and the Caribbean and facilitating the living out of their response to God. Photograph liv Frank Blackwell hy Christine Zwart

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I am able to link three different parts of the world to each other and to be a small part in their mutual transformation.

When the late Bishop John Taylor spoke at the Swanwick conference for the Oxford clergy some years ago, he took the story of the encounter between Jesus and the Syro-Phoenician woman at the well. It was on a hill and Jesus could see the coastline and the lands beyond. That was the moment when Jesus realised that the Father's mission for him was for the world and not just for the people of Israel. That encounter was one of mutual transformation which for me is at the heart of mission. It is I suppose about a journey towards completion, a oneness, a communion.

Ian Hutchinson Cervantes was born in Washington DC, USA in 1962. His father was from New

Zealand and his mother from Guatemala. The family moved frequently mainly to countries in Latin America including Bolivia and Honduras. Ian studied botany and zoology in New Zealand, worked as a volunteeer for the Church in Honduras and in 1985 came to Reading University to complete an MA in rural development. Sponsored by the Diocese of Oxford, he went to Westcott House Theological College in Cambridge before returning to St Mary's Iffley, Oxford as a curate.

In 1992 he married Raffaella, who is from Italy, and the couple were commissioned at Dorchester Abbey in 1993 as USPG sponsored missionaries first in Venezuela and then in Belize.

They now live with their two children in Chelmsford and Ian works at US PG's headquarters in London as Regional Desk Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Feature 3. Commhec to a pilgrimage and discovery This is the third in a series of explorations about Sharing Life. Each month a different person considers one of the themes of our evangelisation strategy. We will offer an explanation, some discussion

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points and a focus for contemplation. We suggest cutting these out and keeping them for further study.

Explanation and exploration

A style of pilgrimage and discovery he LORD went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light, so that they might travel by day and by night.

(Exodus 13v21)

Discussion points I 1. How could I make I 'pilgrimage and discovery' I a bigger part of my life?

I I 2. What might be the new I and surprising thing that I the Holy Spirit is doing in I my life, in our church, or in I our community?

3. How might our church buildings better express visually both God's unchanging nature and God's desire to do new things?

4. How might it be helpful to join an actual pilgrimage?

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Jesus Christ on your last days on earth you promised to leave us the Holy Spirit as our present comforter.

We also know that your Holy Spirit blows over this earth.

But we do not understand him.

Many think he is only a wind or a feeling. Let your Holy Spirit break into our lives.

Let him come like blood into our veins, so that we will be driven entirely by your will.

A prayer born Ghana - An African prayer Book (Desmond Tutu)

Pause for contem oation

Making sense of our own story

The Journey prayer

If we understand each new day as another part of our journey, we are encouraged not to despair when things go wrong: When God seems far away we remember the experience of our fellow travellers-with-Christ around the world and down the centuries - that this is a normal, if unwelcome, part of the journey, and will not last for ever.

It gives us perspective.

And if we are tempted to despair at our sin, a corn-

God, bless to me this day, God, bless to me this night; Bless, 0 bless, thou God of grace, Each day and hour of my life.

God, bless the pathway on which I go, God bless the earth that is beneath my sole; Bless, 0 God, and give to me thy love, 0 God of gods, bless my rest and my repose.

From Cat-mina Gade/ica (a collection of hymns and prayers collected by Alexander Carmichael in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the late 19th Century).

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But enough of the tough times: a commitment to pilgrimage and discovery will also allow us to enjoy those shimmering moments when the dawn from on high breaks upon us. God's life-giving presence is intense - and we should not be reluctant to enjoy it to the full.

Making sense of the world In Acts 10, in the story of Cornelius, we, like Peter and the early church, learn the importance of being open to discovery.

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John Yaxley (pictured), the Chairman of the Oxford Diocesan Board of Finance, presents some hard facts about the finances of the Oxford Diocese. There are, he says, some difficult choices ahead. ¶ using the pack the pundits are 145J to ask informed right a General" questions on Election will be doorsteps or at announced this public meetings, month. We can Christians can, speculate aboutFROM with some confithe date but much THE EDITOR dence, expect to more certain is influence the politics how political debate. changes people.

The pack is a valuable conI have a very good friend whose views I share on many tribution to the run-up to the things, including our Election but I would like to Christian faith. But come an add a Post Script, bearing in Election and we can hardly mind my differences with my speak a civil word to each friend.

May I make a heartfelt plea other, separated as we are by a yawning chasm of political for more respect and less differences. We admit that judgement of our political our allegiance is rooted in enemies. Listening recently prejudice rather than hard to Radio 4's 'Yesterday in political facts. Yet still the Parliament' I caught a snatch of Ann Widdecombe and sparks fly.

The General Election pack Paul Boateng in a debate produced by the Oxford which was not only heated Diocesan Board of Social but very rude. Both, in my Responsibility should help to view, are admirable people in raise the level of private and their different ways. Both are public political debate in the also committed Christians the run up to the Election and I found it sad that they whenever it happens to be. thought it necessary or even The pack is non party politi- appropriate to be so discourcal and provides questions teous and ungracious with rather than answers. In her one even in the bear garden introduction Jo Saunders, of the House of Commons.

But we get the politicians we the Social Responsibility Officer for the Diocese, deserve. So this Election time reminds us that in Berkshire, I will try harder. I mean to sit Bucks and Oxfordshire, down to a civilised discussion membership of the main with my friend, armed of Churches is greater than the course with my copy of the membership of the three General Election Pack!

Christine Zwart main political parties. So by IF

for this opportunity to talk to you about our financial situation because I want to keep you informed of how our thinking is developing in respect of the Budget for 2002.

Quite a lot of work has been done and we have managed to identify the major problems but we have not yet finalised the tactics which enable us to implement our strategy. Let me remind you what the strategy is: We have now been drawing down on our reserves in a planned and orderly way for five years. We have always known that it would not be appropriate to cntinue to do so indefinitely - not least because our reserves are finite. At the current rate of deficit budgeting they would be below an acceptable level in two years time if no further action is taken.

And so, two years ago, we all agreed that the time was fast approaching when we must halt this running down of our reserves. We gave ourselves four years in which to bring our budgets back in the balance.

Diocesan appointments Th e Revd Richard Adams, Assistant Cuçatd, N. Hinksey and Wytharn to be Priest in Charge, Sr Anne's Fence-inPenile, Blackburn Diocese; The Revd Peter Atkinson, Team Missionei; St Mary's Aylesbury to be Team Vicar, St Peter's Quarrendon; The Revd Geoffrey Borrowdale, Curate Bracknell Team Ministry with special responsibility for St Andrews, Priestwood to be Priest in Charge, Theale w. Englefield; The Revd Peter Bradley, Team Vicar, All Saints Wycombe, Wycombe Team Ministry to be also acting Team Recto; The Revd David Cherry, Priest in Charge (NSM) Waltham St Lawrence to retire; The Revd Maureen Devine, Assistant Curate NSM St John and St Stephen, Reading to be NSM Beech Hill, Grazeley and Spencers Wood; The Revd Catherine Dyer, Team Vicar, West Slough Team Ministry to be Priest in Charge, Linslade; The Revd Olivia Graham, Assistant Curate,

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At the same time as the Diocesan Synod took that decision in mid 1999, we also agreed that we should both increase clergy stipends by 5% p.a and freeze annual increases in the parish share to 7% p.a. You will appreciate that these two policy decisions do not make it any easier for us to achieve our policy to balance our budget and we may have to reassess whether one or the other or both of them remain achievable.

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get it is likely that an increase of about 3.5% will be required in 2002.

The crux of the problem is that if we are to balance our budget in 2003 we have to reduce the currently planned level of net expenditure by about £200,000 in 2002 and a further £200,000 in 2003.

Now £200,000 is only about 1.3% of our total expenditure and you might imagine that it would be a relatively easy matter to find these savings - but believe you me it is not - for in recent years we have already cut departmental budgets and in any case many of our costs are outside our control.

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Mutual support The costs are not divided equally between all dioceses since the larger and richer (and we fall into that category) assume a greater proportion of the burden to the extent that Oxford not only pays its own share but also the share of another one and one-third diocese. So far we have been able to live with this level of mutual support and indeed we should be happy to have done so.

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Clergy and stipends What has also not been taken into account is the future outcome of two national reviews relating to clergy stipends and clergy pensions. Some of you know that the whole concept and philosophy of clergy remuneration is currently being looked at and the result will certainly not be a reduction in our stipend bill.

Secondly, the Church of England's actuaries are looking at the Clergy Pension Fund and this is likely to result in an increase in the contributions we will be required to make. However, it is early days and we are in no position to include provision for these two items in our projections at this stage, but it is appropriate that we should all be aware that they are on the horizon.

In conclusion, let me reiterate that our central task must be to ensure that there is no further diminution of our cash reserves after 2002.

This means that our planning for the coming years requires us to cut our coat according to our cloth. So we are going to have to make some difficult decisions. But, speaking personally, I find that the closer we get to this final push to get our budget: back into balance the more confident I am that we shall be successful.

John Yaxley is the Chairman of the Diocesan Board of Finance. This article is based on his report to the Diocesan Synod of 3 March, 2001.

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remain on earth after the Rapture. Whilst I am no believer in date setting I am sure that we have been given extremely strong indications to note when the end is very close. Indeed in the article Christine rightly says that most of the Biblical prophecies have been fulfiled. Those eight books are immensely popular indicating that the interest is there. So why oh why do some, but not all priests, shy away from the subject?

In her article she highlights two aspects viz: the Rapture of the Church and the question of the Anti-Christ, and these, I fancy, in most churches are never mentioned. Why not? Would they frighten some believers?

I am not as Bible literate as some, but certainly not completely illiterate. Those who consider that we are to have no idea of Jesus' return date should perhaps dwell on these quotations put into everyday English: is I make known the end from the beginning' is Close up the book Daniel, for they are to be sealed until the end is You look up to the sky and can gauge the weather for tomorrow, but you can't recognise the signs of the times.

I guess that the Bible is at least 60% prophecy and prophecy to me is to 'matters ahead'. If one accepts this surely it is important that more of each church's time is devoted to the subject of the End Times. I wonder what would be the result if priests were to survey their congregations and ask just how much interest there was in learning about the End Times. Some might say, and I certainly do, that this lack of teaching is just another example of mankind's' tradition getting

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The Archdeaconry of Berkshire is somewhat bigger than many dioceses stretching from Hungerford to Windsor to Abingdon.

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Thomas Bray of London to go to Maryland in North America to look at the needs of the Church there.

This experience led him to establish a Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) in 1699 to raise funds for provision of books and schools in the colonies. He then went on to

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David Livingstone obtain a Royal Charter for the establishment of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). It is a tribute to Bray's vision that both these societies continue to have a role in Christian education and mission today.

UMCA was inspired by another man of great vision, David Livingstone, who on returning from Africa in 1857, was invited to speak, first at Oxford University and then at Cambridge. His call to the students to go to Africa to spread Christianity and to end slavery brought a response which was maintained through generations of young men (and later, women) who went out to Central and Southern Africa, often sacrificing their lives or their health to bring the Gospel of love, together with education and healthcare to 'the dark continent'. One of

God's messengers' Edward Steere (1828-1882) was a barrister and priest who, at the age of 26, sold his books to feed the poor. In 1864, he travelled to Africa with the Universities' Mission to Central Africa and, later in an address to his fellow missionaries now as bishop, he offered the following thoughts: 'You are sent as God's messengers. If none will receive your message, still God's part has been done and you have done yours if you have faithfully declared it. You will not be asked at the last day, 'How many converts have you made?'

'Follow as far as you can the customs of the place and people. Quarrel with no one.

Treat no one with contempt.

Understand the thoughts and difficulties of the people. Seek to do as Christ would have done in your place. God is with you and, though you may see no result, your labour is not in vain.'

In the wake of Dr Bray In 1701 Thomas Bray was Rector of Sheldon in Warwickshire. The present Rector, Brian Camp (pictured), will lead a narrow boat pilgrimage from Sheldon to London. He will follow the Oxford Canal and River Thames through the Oxford Diocese in June via Banbury (2nd), Oxford (5th), Abingdon (6th), Dorchester (7th), Pangbourne (8th) and Henley (9th). Brian is also renaming his boat 'The Dr Bray' to mark the occasion. Crew members are still needed. Contact Cohn Cockshaw (address above).

(pictured ) is well known to many in Oxford Diocese through our Link with the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman. Here he

talks about his new role in.London, as US PG's Regional Desk Officer (R DO) for Southern Africa, West Africa and the Indian Ocean.

I was born in a dusty little most precious asset, 'people cious human resources amidst town in South Africa but power'. This process benefited great challenges. We face devthanks to a development profrom other associations, like astation of natural disasters gramme in my home diocese the link between the dioceses such as floods, the trauma of of Kimberley & Kuruman the AIDS pandemic (and the of Oxford and K&K. and my association with As a Regional Desk Officer at decimation of the future leadUSPG, I am confident that I USPG, I will be able to contin- ership) and the awful suffering have something to offer to the ue with my international rela- we bring upon ourselves (civil, world church. tions work and will strive to faction and ethnic battles).

The diocese of K & K is an create a window of opportuni- Our job is clear: we need to area devoid of natural ty for others on a wider scale. encourage, develop and nurresources but had the foresight In Africa we need to keep at ture sound leaders to take us to recognise and develop its the task of developing our pre- into this new millennium.

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with churches in more than 50 different countries. It has an annual income in excess of £5 million and, unlike most other mission agencies, a large part is given away to churches around the world to fund their work. In 2000 USPG doubled their funding budget by drawing on reserves and hope to repeat this in 2001 and beyond if adequate money is available.

Funding the work of churches is part of the ethos of the Society.

If someone is sent to another country as a missionary or volunteer, they do not go as a USPG missionary. They go to serve in the church in that place and that church takes responsibility for them. Equally the church from which they come is a partner to the missionary enterprise. At the moment USPG is enabling about 80 people to serve different parts of the World Church as long term missionaries and also offers opportunities for volunteers and people in training.

Most importantly, USPG seeks to work on principles of partnership, mutuality and openness. 'Advocacy' - taking up issues which concern those with whom we have a relationship - is one expression of this and has led to our considerable involvement in the Jubilee 2000 Campaign.

Today USPG is considering how to bring Christians from around the World Church to serve long term in this country because we believe they have much to offer us. Already some churches in Oxford Diocese are looking at ways that they might benefit from such a scheme. The Society envisages several different ways of achieving such partnerships through their 'Common Mission' programmes.

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You can find out more about their work from USPG, Partnership House, 157 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8XA. Telephone 0207928 8681 e-mail enquiries©uspg.org.uk Or contact our Diocesan USPG Mission Adviser: Cohn Cockshaw at 76 Willow Drive, Bicester, Oxon 0X26 3XA. telephone 01869 249555. email uspgfwcc@dircon.co.uk

Oxford celebrates USPG's 300th birthday GO FOURTH! will be a the opportunity for parishes and people in Oxford Diocese to come together for a day of celebration and worship at Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday 22 September (l lam to 4pm.) This will be an all-age event with activities, music, talks and discussions and visitors from around the world. A picnic lunch with fun and entertainment will be followed later by a Celebration Eucharist in the Cathedral.

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'A community of Christians' United College of the Ascension at Selly Oak in Birmingham has been called 'the jewel in USPG's crown'. It is now run jointly with the Methodist Church and is part of the University of Birmingham. Nevertheless, it retains its essential character as a meeting place for people from many parts of the world church and continues to prepare both missionaries and short-term volunteers for service overseas.

The college also offers people in this country short study courses on a wide range of topics throughout the year. In May and June for instance there are courses on 'Faith in Schools', 'Racism and Colonialism' and 'Medical Issues of Ethics among Religions.' A Vocations Day is planned on 19 June.

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Meet Charlet Rajan Charlet Rajan (pictured above) is studying at the College this year. She has come from the Diocese of Kanya Kumari at the southern tip of India to do an MA in Mission Studies.

USPG is supporting her and has arranged for her husband,

Soundara, to spend one term with her. Charlet is Assistant Secretary to her Diocesan Women's Fellowship, while her husband is a pastor. She assists him in church and in parish work, visiting people in their homes and praying for the sick and needy. While she has been in Birmingham she has enjoyed visits to local parishes. Out of the confusion of new arrivals at the college in September has grown a gentune community of Christians from different races and backgrounds, she adds.

Anglican Bishop of Temuco, the Rt Revd Abelino Apeleo.

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Life in the Andes HIGH up in the remote Alto Bio Bio sector of the Andes Mountains the Pehuenche people live in small scattered communities. Life is harsh in a wooden hut, with a central fire and no chimney, surrounded by two-metre deep snow. Cut off for two months each winte; Pehuenche families live and sleep in a room coated with soot, compounding physical isolation with malnutrition and respiratory disorders.

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Once there, they are often treated with prejudice and find they have no way back.

The Anglican Church has been in Chile for 150 years and among those who have embraced it are the Pehuenche, visited and nurtured by the very active

ing but also road construction to bring materials over the rough and remote terrain. In solving their housing problem by their own efforts, the Pehuenche grow in confidence and their community spirit is strengthened. The faith which the Pehuenche folk live out in their daily lives is a great inspiration and education to Andy.

Susie Steyn, USPG'S Projects Information Officer

•USPG projects can help parishes, individuals and groups to support, pray for and learn about the work of the church in another part of the world. There is a wide range of projects to choose from and each project has a colourful information pack, regular newsletters, support materials and a financial target for the year.

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Sharon Frood, a paediatric nurse decided to take a break and spend six months at The Haven in Port Elizabeth. This very special place, established by the Diocese, provides short and long term care for people with AIDS. Christian love surrounds the work there.

Each day starts and ends with worship and praise in the Chapel. The Haven also provides long term care for children whose mothers are living with AIDS or who have died because of it.

These children are born HIV+. The role of volunteers like Sharon is to give them the TLC every child needs. Some of them will die at a very young age.

Like many volunteers, Sharon discovered that by giving her time she received far more than she was ever able to give. For information about the Experience Exchange Programme contact Habib Nader at USPG.

The 'Chance in A Lifetime' Appeal is US PG's response to the many requests it receives from the Church overseas to help in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has challenged the World Church to unite in the fight against AIDS: 'We can make a difference, as we did when we defeated apartheid' he says.

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Helen Buchanan,Youth Council Adult Representitive for St Thomas' in the Beaconsfield Team Ministry, writes about a youthful experience at Wycombe Abbey School

this title you may wonder why someone as old as me (Helen is in her forties) should be there but this day was billed for anyone young or old, with an interest in youth focused worship. We all arrived at Wycombe Abbey School on 3 March to be met with the sight of the stunning school grounds covered in sparkling snow. What a place to worship!

The timetable for the day split the morning into two workshop sessions, lunch, and a third session. The choice was difficult as so many different skills and ideas were being covered music, art, the use of multimedia and the creation of various types of worship.

The young people I knew all opted for DJ Bruce (pictured far right) a workshop exploring the use of garage music as a stimulus for prayer. They were impressed with his sin-

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particular form of worship into church! 'Fools for Christ' was another very popular workshop for the younger participants. I joined the 'Creating and Presenting Drama in Church' workshop,

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Ar-,s Can you mix politics with religion? was of the opinion that religion should be left to the bishop. In other words politics and religion do not mix. David Rogers does not agree. In a timely new book he brings us back to fundamentals, the role of church and of the Christian faith in our political life. The trappings are with us prayers in Parliament and the church is still established but Christian practice is largely missing.

Rogers has been an advisor to senior politicians, is Visiting Fellow in Politics at Goldsmith's and is an active member of his parish church - so he knows a thing or two about the political game. He gives advice on campaigning, on preparing speeches including sermons - and those who are in the business of influencing politicians (and who isn't) will find all this of real, practical, value, it is also a compendium of little known facts about religion and politics. For example I did not know that the Lord President of the Council, usually the Leader of the Commons, has a special duty to protect The Prayer Book (does the Lord President know this?!) or that the Archbishop of York ranks higher in the official order of precedence than the Prime Minister.

But the thrust of the book is POLITICS, PRAYER AND about the little-used power of public prayer and of the Church IS PARLIAMENT SEASONS in our political life. Christians

BY DAVID ROGERS have a duty to be effective.

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Leonard Allen freelances in PR and journalism and was at Conservative Central Office.

Rejoice in the Lord always Michael Boswell

reviews two CDs by the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

are two digitally remastered CDs from the limited recorded output of the choir in 1963 and 1964, produced by a local company OxRecs Digital of Standlake near Witney. nglish Polyphonic Music (44 minutes) contains eight anthems and four organ pieces of the 16th and early 17th centuries. The music is perhaps variable in quality: two pieces are included simply because the composers were organists at Magdalen, and I have never been a fan of Mudd's Let thy merciful ears nor Redford's Rejoice in the Lord always. But the disc contains two anthems of the highest quality: 0 clap your hands

by Orlando Gibbons and Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom by Thomas Tomkins, which has a truly magnificent setting of the Amen at the end of the Doxology. Other composers worthily represented are Richard Dering and William Byrd. The organ pieces show off the old organ well, but the THESE

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Stanford and Wood Church Music (51 minutes) is of music

by Charles Stanford and his pupil Charles Wood, both composers of the turn of the 20th century who wrote Anglican settings for morning and evening services, as well as numerous anthems for the Church's year. Stanford is represented by his glorious Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C, as well as the trio of anthems written for Trinity College, Cambridge: Coelos ascendit hodie, the more intimate Beati quorum via and Justorum animae, and finally an early, less familiar pastoral setting of The Lord is my Shepherd.

The music by Charles Wood is his two-choir Mag and Nunc in F, written for King's Cambridge, and three

anthems, including the bestknown Hail, gladdening Light. The singing is fresh, sensitive yet forthright, and well projected, with once again clear careful pronunciation, particularly in the rather slow Magnificat in C. The organ sounds more distant than on the other CD but provides a thrilling accompaniment at times.

I prefer this CD to the other one, if only because the music is more dramatic and sung with more character. But both these discs should appeal to a wider audience than exMagdalen Choristers or Academical Clerks, who will of course love them.

Michael Boswell has had wide experience in solo and choral singing, including with the choir of King's College, Cambridge and the Monteverde Choir in London. He is on the staff of St Edward's School, Oxford.

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Bnc all our lives together THE FACT that hymns form a key pointer to O God of earth and altar, changing social awareness Bow down and hear our cry, is well exemplified in G.K Our earthly rulers falter, Chesterton's poem '0 God Our people drift and die; of earth and altar'. Social The walls of gold entomb us, consciences were stirring The swords of scorn in later Victorian England. divide, Hymns and spiritual songs Take not thy thunder from us, were becoming instru- But take away our pride. ments to rouse reformers From all that to action. terror teaches, This develFrom lies of opment was Hymn Notes tongue and pa rtly pen, sparked off From all the By by socialist easy speeches hymns Marjorie Reeves That comfort adopted and Jenyth Worsley cruel men, f r o m From sale and America. by profanation the turn of Of honour and the sword, the century the cultural From sleep and from costs of industrialization damnation were finding expression in several passionate English Deliver us, good Lord! hymns. In 1902, Henry Scott Holland, co-founder of the Christian Social Union, published b.is 'Judge eternal, throned in splendour', in the journal The Commonwealth. In 1906, Chesterton's verses, '0 God of earth and altar', dream harks back to an idealized medieval society, suggesting the influence of Pre-Raphaelite ideas. The hymn burns with scorn for class divisions and the power of money. Verse two forms a modern radical litany, couched in winged words. It is, however, the first two lines of the third verse that give the key to his vision: the language is deliberately archaic, striking a foreign, even a false, note today. The current individualist response to the culminating last line would be 'Who wants to be held up as a single sword?'

Yet the cry 'Bind all our lives together, smite us and save us all' speaks eloquently to our atomized society.

Tie in a living tether The prince and priest and thrall, Bind all our lives together, Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation Aflame with faith and free, Lift up a living nation, A single sword to thee.

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I A child in danger Emma Garrow, a freelance journalist who works for Viva Network in Oxford, reminds us of the World Wide Day of Prayer for Children at Risk on 2 June 2001

pack is available containing say your prayers for a part of plenty of information and the world you have never visit- pointers to guide your event, ed, for people you've never publicity materials and activimet, and you wonder whether ty sheets for children. A it will really make a difference. prayer event could involve Well, how about this? any number of people from Because Christians in the just yourself in the privacy of Oxford Diocese your own daily were praying on devotions to a whole church the first Saturday of June last year, a involving hunbaby-selling netdreds. It could work in Argentina be part of a regular fellowship was busted by the local police a few group meeting, or a special days later. Because these same event laid on for the purpose of Christians joined praying just for their prayers to those of thousands children. The around the world prayer pack covers the needs that day, the Democratic of children across the Republic of Congo shortly afterwards world, but you passed a law premight also find it useful to ask venting the recruitment of child solany children's projects local to diers. What will happen this year? you if they The World Wide would like to Day of Prayer for share in your Children at Risk is event in any happening again. way.

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In their homes, in their child- often find that once they start care ministries, in their praying for 'children at risk' churches, people will meet they don't want to stop. The together in small groups and prayer pack contains inforlarge to remember before mation on how you can conGod the great needs of the tinue to inform your prayers countless children who suffer during the rest of the year. today. If you would like to plan an event for 2 June all For a copy of the prayer pack or you need to start is the firm to find out where events are conviction that prayer does being held locally contact Viva make a difference. When it Network PD Box 633, Oxford comes to organising an event 0X2 OXZ; telephone (01865) on the day, there are no rules. 450 800 Or print the pack: A WWDPCR information www.viva.org/Icanprayer/wdp

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Today, with the introduction of Fair Trade goods, supermarkets are making it easier for us to think of the suppliers and benefit others as we do our shopping. Not only this but within the Diocese there are many Christian food suppliers.

St Francis House in Oxford produces organic bread and cakes which they sell through Blackfriars Church. They in turn get their food from the Daily Bread Co-operative.

Founded in 1979 through nine people who met as a house communion group. This Christian company is based in Northampton and supplies organic whole-foods as well as Fair Trade products all over the Diocese.

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Yeldall Direct was launched in January 2001 to local churches, and now has well over 200 regular customers. It is based at the Christian Rehabilitation Centre, Yeldall Manor in Reading, and offers the customer a chance to help rebuild lives broken through drug and alcohol addiction by simply purchasing free range eggs and bottled spring water.

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The products are delivered direct to your door on a weekly or fortnightly basis. The free range eggs are produced on the Manor's 38 acre estate by hens which are looked after by residents on the 11 month rehabilitation programme.

Scott Baxter, who successfully completed the rehabilitation programme at Yeldall Manor, is now coincidentally working for Kingdom Coffee. Also based in Reading, Kingdom Coffee is a Christian supplier of coffee, tea, biscuits, milk products, Expresso machines and soft drinks. It was started three years ago by Roland Norman, and their goal is to plough back 30% of their profits for the benefit of the workers in the Central African Republic and Brazil, the sources of their coffee beans.

Kingdom Coffee can supply to any coffee house or business in the Oxford Diocese. The vision behind the company is encapsulated in Matthew 13 verse 44. The words have been printed on their delivery van: The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and brought that field.

Fair Trade goods enable everyone to have a share in the treasure. It definitely is food for thought.

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BE LIFTED UP '(Jesus) was lifted up and a cloud took him out of their sight' Acts 1:9 Ascension Day, which falls this month, may be a public holiday across the Channel in France, but in England even devout Christians largely ignore it, as the Church moves from the victory of Easter to the unveiling of Pentecost. For many people today that's probably just as well, because they find the notion of a human body being lifted up into heaven quite bizarre. As the late John Robinson once famously asked, 'Did they practice rocketry on the Mount of the Ascension?'.

The answer, of course, is 'No', and even to ask the question is to stray from the profound spiritual truth of this story into the and arena of debate about facts. The Gospels all record the ministry of Jesus, his empty tomb and resurrection

by David Winter

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH and the disciples' meeting with the living Lord on the first Easter. But the appearances of the risen Jesus came to an end. The story of his life on earth - the 'incarnation' which all of the Gospels strongly assert was part of real history, had to end somewhere and at some point in time. For Luke, this story of the departure of Jesus is that point - the Canon David Winter is a former Diocesan Director of Evangelism, a broadcaster and author of many books including Message for the Millennium (BRF).

point at which the risen Jesus ended his life on earth and took up again his appointed place as the eternal Son, in the language of the New Testament 'seated at the right hand of the Father'.

What had begun in the poverty of a stable, in other words, ended in the mystery of the cloud - the sign of the presence of God - and the 'glorification' which had been promised to him. In the words of Christ's High Priestly prayer, 'I glorified you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had before the world existed' (John 17:5).

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- Programme - 8, 15, 22 May 'Bishop's Bible Studies' with Bishop Mike Hill at St Michael's School, Stewkley 7.45pm £3 per evening.

14, 21 May &4 June 'An introduction to Leading Worship' with Peter Faulkner, The Winslow Centre, Winslow 8pm, £12. (Book by 7 May) 11, 18, 25 June 'The • Teaching of Jesus' with John Lewis, 11 Lomond Drive, Linslade 8pm, £12. (Book by 4 June) All details from the 'Cottesloe' office (01908) 506867 St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality 5 May Study Day, 10.30am 4pm 'R S Thomas: Poet and Priest.' Cost: £12, concessions £6 at Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Woodstock Rd, Oxford.

19 May Study Day 10.30am 4pm 'Prayer of the Heart'

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Conferences Music

Courses Reclaiming our Stories 12 May The Bible stories are being rediscovered as a means of personal and community 'growth. This conference seeks to help individuals and church workers to: * Explore the relevance of the Bible today * Advance the practice of story telling * Explore new ways of sharing our stories in the faith community At Regents Park College, Oxford 10.3 Oam - 4pm, £20, 15 concessions). Details from Regents Park College, Pusey Street, Oxford, OXJ 2LB

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Stewardship, Training, Evangelism and Ministry Beginnings in Portfolio Mon 30 April, 21 May, 18 June from 730pm - 9.30pm at St Nicolas' Church Small Hall, Sutcliffe Ave, Earley, Reading.

Cost £5. Tutor Revd Phillip Tovey Infroduction to Pastoral Care 5May from loam- 4pm atAll Saints, Dedworth, near Windsor.

Cost is £7.50 for those outside Dedworth, with lunch provided.

Tutor is the Revd Peter Ballantine.

Please do not turn up without booking a place. Details: Juliet Ralph (01865) 208282 St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course IMay - 3 July (inclusive) Tuesday evening lectures/learning sessions, courses are relevant to Oxford Diocese portfolio programme.

7.05 - 8.05pm Introduction to the Old Testament (Mike Butterworth) Ecciesiology (Gerald Hegarty) 8.20 - 9.20pm Doctrine of God and the Person of Christ (Gerald Hegarty) 7.05 - 9.20pm (1 - 29 May only) Culture and Interfaith (Jan Collins; double sessions; from 5 June only) Courses are open to those in good standing with their church who wish to be better equipped in their Christian life and witness.Cost: £5 per session. Please contact: Gill Pratley (01865) 208260 FOCUS (Federation of Caring and Counselling Schemes in the Diocese) 12 May Workshop in Church

Drop the Debt Day 12 May Part of a worldwide movement calling for total cancellation for unpayable debt for the world's poorest countries.

At the G8 Genoa Summit, July 2001 under a fair and transparent process.

2pm South Parks: Start of parade with African drummers through the city centre via the High Street to Broad Street - all welcome to join.

From 3pm in Broad Street: Speakers including David Hillman.

Plus dance, music, street artists, children's activities, refreshments, stalls, petition 3.30pm: Tug of War - Beat the IMF and World Bank. Book a trip to Genoa, Italy, to lobby the G8 Summit on 21st July - or sign and send a postcard if you can't go Details: Oxford Drop the Debt, 57b St. Clements St, Oxford, (0186S)723486

Women and the Labour Market - equality or exploitation 26 May 2001 A day school to be held at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford.

The day will examine changes in the position and status of women over the past three decade, and ask whether the 'glass ceiling' of women's opportunities has been broken or merely cracked. Ways of increasing labour market equality between men and women will also be considered. lOam - 5pm £36.60 with lunch, £29.00 without.

Details from the Oxford

The Father Heart of God 18-20 May A Healing Retreat led by the Revd Elizabeth Brazell and members of the Word for Life Trust, at St Mary the Virgin, Burghfield in the Parish Centre.

For details of this non-residential retreat please contact Margaret Thomas (0118) 9833274

Celebrating Ten Years of Faith in the Countryside 23 June A conference and celebration at Southwark Cathedral for all engaged in the countryside. The aims are to: assess what has been achieved in the past ten years, share a vision for the countryside with partner agencies and to identify and seize new opportunities.

Reply by 23 May to: Celebrating Ten Years of Faith in the Countryside, The Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility/Church Society, 60 Marsham Street, Maidstone, Kent MEI4 JEW (01622) 755014 office@csr.org.uk

Milk and Honey, T)*CI Nabonal conference of Arts in Mission 1-3 May 'Into a Good and Spacious Land'. A conference at High Leigh, Hoddesdon for artists and church leaders who see in this 'Age of Experience' that God has opened a wide door of opportunity. Details from Arts in Mission (WFLT), 3 Danestream Close, Milford-on-Sea, Lymington, Hampshire, SO4I OUR Tel: (01590) 645216 Christian Aid Week •13 - 19 May Resources for organisations, collectors, worship leaders and teachers available from the website includes worship and teaching resources and background information on the countries featured this Christian Aid Week http://www.christian-aid.org.uk

Quincentennial - A Musical Extravaganza in Dorchester Abbey 5 May Music from five centuries performed by Dorchester Abbey Choir, Two-A-Part and David Payne. Conducted by John Simpson. Tickets (LS/concessions £3) are available from Dorchester Post Office Shop or can be reserved by calling Tessa Bartley 07887 803519. All proceeds to the Dorchester Abbey Appeal.

Wendover Choral Society 5 May Fortieth Anniversary Concert at St Mary the Virgin Church, Wendover 7.30pm.

Music from Fauré, Mozart, Borodin and Charpentier.

Conductor: Richard Fox. Tickets £6 with refreshments.

16 June Musical Soirée in aid of the Hospitll at Stoke Mandeville Community Centre at 7.30pm.Tickets £8 (including buffet).

Details (01296) 623377 The Bach Choir 23 May Performance in aid of Rukba (Helping elderly people stay independent) at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 8pm.

Tickets: £35, £25, £20, £15.

There are a limited number of tickets at £55 each to include a pre-concert reception and interval drinks in the Vicar's Hall.

Dinner at the Guildhall is available after the concert.

Details:(01494) 562220 Services at Christ Church Cathedral Sundays 8am Holy Communion, lOam Matins and Sermon; 11.lSam Sung Eucharist; 6pm Evensong.

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Pilgrimage Festivals

Taizé After two highly successful trips in 1999 and 2000, a group from the Oxford Diocese will once again be spending a week in Taizé in 2001 (28 July - 6 August). This week will provide the opportunity to: * Meet young people from over the world *Pray together with music and silence * Share questions and hopes * Find new ways of looking at the Church * Stand back, to see our lives in the light of the Gospel.

The Pilgrimage will be led by the new Bishop of Dorchester Cohn Fletcher, and will cost £170 (includes travel and a week's stay in Taizé.)

For more information and a registration form, contact Andrew Gear, Diocesan Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford OX2 ONB (01865) 208253 youthofficer@oxford.anglican.org Ark-T Centre+Gallery Wednesdays 1pm Communion service, everyone welcome.

Saturday mornings lOam - 12 noon Ark-T Café, Crowell Road, Cowley, Oxford (01865) 773499/396778 8 April - 5 May 'Stations of the Cross' - work for a commission, by Olympia Sutherland, artist in residence.

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St Mary's Festival 2001 Benefice of Stratfield Mortimer and Mortimer West End with Padworth Sun 13 May Choral Evensong 6.30pm Thurs 17 Concert: St John's Choir & St Mary's School 7pm Fri 18 Riding Lights Roughshod Theatre Company presents A Elephant in the Corner 7.30pm Sat 19 Gift day, 10— 5pm Cream Teas available. Art Theme Jazz Ensemble 7.30pm Sun 20 Eucharist lOam, Mortimer May 6.30pm preceded by Procession from St John's Tues 22 Confirmation with Bishop of Reading 7.30pm Evening prayer will be said at 6pm Monday - Thursday evenings throughout the Festival period.Details from Juliet Straw (0118) 933 2648

Reading Women's Festival 2001 10 - 19 May Christian women representing a number of different groups and denominations in Reading have sensed God calling them to do something to make a difference to the lives of women in Reading: 11-16 May 'Too Literal for Words' An exhibition of textile art at Greyfriars Centre 12 May ' Discover your Talents' An opportunity for women to take part in activities eg art, movement and a host more at Greyfriars Centre 17 May An evening with Ann Atkins. Ann, agony aunt for

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Bishop Mike Hill presiding. All welcome, bring lunch, drinks provided. £15 members, £20 nonmembers. Details from Sheila Stephens (0118) 9575120 or Doris Szvinbank (01628) 636469

St John's College, Durham 7-9 &14-16 September Autumn Holiday Weekend: Leisure Study and Worship at St John's College. Details from Rachel Jones (01423) 797800

Woodstock Textile Group - a partnership between: The Oxfordshire Museum, the Woodstock Broderers, the Friends of St Mary Magdalene Church, the Arts and Tourism Departments of West Oxfordshire District Council, and Blenheim Palace. It includes wallhangings, kneelers, tapestries and embroidery, and there is a attractive 'trail' guide (1) available along the way including at the church. Details: 01993 813276.

1.05pm Holy Communion on Wednesdays only 6pm Choral Evensong 6pm Sung Eucharist on Thursdays or Saints Days

- Sundays 6 :9am Local religious views, church news, favourite hymns

A Christian celebration with Ann Coles (New Wine) at St Mary's in the Butts.

Details from Jan Hearn (0118) 9665152

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MAY Tues I GROVE Cornerstone Coffee shop May special Tiffin with tea or coffee for £1.15 (01235) 772280 Tues I OXFORD Evangelistic Meal at Pizza Express with guest speaker TV Presenter Steve Chalke. wickets £15, details (01865) 433030 Thum 3 STOKE POGES Quiet Garden lOam - 3pm. 'Water and Drought' finding spiritual renewal in dry places with Andy Gilmour.

Details (0 1753) 643050 Fri 4 WINDSOR Memorial lecture by the Revd Valerie Bonham, commemorating centenary of death of Canon Thomas T Carter, Rector of Clewer 1844 1880, 7.30pm at St Andrew's Fri 4 READING Lunch-Time Organ Music with Ian May 12.15pm at Minster Church of St Mary The Virgin, St Mary Butts Sat 5 WENDOVER Choral Society presents 'A Spring bouquet of Music' at St Mary the Virgin Church at 7.30pm Tickets £6 (children £2) Sat 5 READING Organ recital by Christopher Cipkin Wesley Methodist Church 7.30pm Sat 5 OXFORD Anglican Cell Church Conference at St Andrew's Linton Road lOam 4pm £12.

Details: enquiries@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk Sat 5 ASTON ABBOTTS Flower festival at St James Church 2-5pm &al 6 ASTON ABBOTIS flower festival and Teddy Bears Picnic at St James Church 2- 5pm.

Sun 6 WINDSOR First of summer

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walks around Carter's Clewer, 2.30pm from St Andrew's Church and museum.

Tues 8 OXFORD CMS Open Meeting 'Memories of John V Taylor' and update by Gill Poole. St Andrew's, Linton Rd 7.30pm.

Details (01865) 245509 Thum 10 WINDSOR Evening at Vicars Hall, Windsor Castle, musical entertainment, drinks and canapes 7.30pm (Evensong 5.15) Tickets £15 (01753) 861134. In aid of The Children's Society.

Sat 12 HAMBLEDEN The Renaissance Singers and the Utrecht Chamber Choir 7.30pm at St Mary the Virgin. Details (01491) 574652 tickets £9 Sat 12 WENDOVER Music Concert at St Mary's Church with the Cardinall's Music, beginning at 8pm. Details (01296) 622805 Sat 12 SLOUGH Slough Philharmonic Society in Eton College School Hall at 8pm.

Tickets £10 (01753) 643521 Sat 12 CHINNOR Supper evening with music and songs from the Emmaus Group at The Village Centre, High Street, 7.30pm. Tickets £7 including three course supper. Details (01844) 353733 Thum 17 OXFORD Council of Christians and Jews talk by Bishop Andrew Burnham on Liturgical Common Ground.

8pm at the Oxford Jewish Centre 01865 761630 Thum 17 STOKE POGES Quiet Garden lOam - 3pm. 'God delights in His garden' with Mary Sketch.

Details (01753) 643050

Fri 18 ROTHERFIELD PEPPARD 'Music for a Spring Evening' recital of Mozart, Falla and Britten at All saints Church 8pm. Details (0118) 972 2844 Fri 18 READING Lunch-Time Organ Music with Christine Wells 12.15pm at Minster Church of St Mary-The Virgin St Mary Butts Sat 19 HENLEY Sponsored Walk 5/10/15 mile walk around the Henley area. Details contact Paul Langley (01865) 246818 Sat 19 HENLEY 'Messe Solennelle' by Rossini at St Mary's Church 7.45prn, £6 in advance, £7 at door. Details (0118) 940 2268 Sat 19 STEWKLEY Plant sale and coffee morning at St Michaels Church, 10 - 12 noon in aid of Bell Fund. Details: (01525) 240069 Sat 19-20 OXFORD 'Return to Eden' at St Margaret's, Kingston Road, play with original music., 6.30pm on 19 May, 4pm on 20 May. Details (01865) 557983 Sun 20 GREAT MISSENDEN Sponsored Walk for the Children's Society, starting between lOam 12 noon from Great Missenden Memorial Hall, two distances 17 miles and 11 miles. Details Angela Hart (01844) 292242 Tues 23 WHITE WALTHAM Flower Coffee Guild morning/evening 10.30 - 12.30: 7pm, raffle, bring&buy and flower demonstration at St Mary's Church Fri 25 - 28 CHINNOR Flower Festival on the theme 'The Church's Year'. Details (01844) 351040

Sat 26 - Mon 28 BAMPTON Flower Festival from lOam - 5pm.

On Monday. refreshments will be available in the Church, it being Bampton's Traditional Morris Dancing Day. Sat 26 -Mon 28 PffSTONE Spring Festival St Mary's Church.

Art, craft and flowers -. Sat 2-6pm, Sun and Mon 11 - 6pm. Evensong Sunday at 6pm. Details (01296) 661544 Thum 31 STOKE POGES Quiet Garden lOam - 3pm. 'Tides and Seasons' with The Revd Jo Stoker.

Details (01753) 643050

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JUNE Fri I GROVE Cornerstone Coffee shop June special Cappacino cake with tea or coffee for £1.15 (01235) 772280 Sat 2 BROUGHTON w NORTH NEWINGTON Church Fete at Broughton Castle 2 - 4pm.

Details from 01295 264987 Sat 2 BANBURY Focolare afternoon 2.30 - 4pm at St Francis's Church, Highlands. An introduction to the Focolare ideal of fostering unity. Details: (01295) 265836 Sun 3 LUTON Abseil for free down the Luton Thistle Hotel by raising money for The Children's Society. Details Kim Gutteridge (01767) 260714 Fri 8 BANBURY A 'Quiet Garden' in Baiscote village, open 2 - 6pm with two short addresses. Arrive and leave when you wish. Enquiries (01295) 738 194 Fri 8 -10 READING Flower Festival at Christ Church 10 6pm, 10 - 7pm and 2 - 5pm followed by Thanksgiving Choral

Evensong at 6pm (Cheese and wine party on Fri £5, 8pm) Details: (0118) 986 0610 Sat 9 - 10 WANTAGE Church Open Weekend, church open from 2 - 5pm, concert by the Parish Church choir at 7.30pm on Saturday. Sunday evening service at 6pm followed by a sing-a-long. Details:(01235) 762842 Sat 9 - 10 IVER HEATH St Margaret's presents a Flower Festival called Movie Magic 11am -5pm Sun 10 CHIPPING NORTON Choral Evensong at St Mary's Church. Details from Church Office (01608) 646202 Sun 17 WANTAGE Songs for a Summer Afternoon, followed by a guided tour of the Church and including tea. tea. £5 Details:(01235) 762842 Sun 17 HOOK NORTON 'Village Open Gardens' about 12 open, 2 - 6pm. £3 inclusive map and ticket teas available and easy parking. Details: (01608) 730062 Sat 23 OXFORD Alzheimer's Society Plant Sale in aid of the local Branch, at St Catherine's College, 1.30pm - 4.30pm.

Details: (01865) 862064 Sat 23 THE LEE (near Great Missenden) Church Fete 2pm on the village green. Details (01494) 837309 Wed 27 DORCHESTER Girton College Chapel Choir Cambridge present an evening of choral music from Talus and Byrd to Grainger and Cole Porter, 7.30pm, tickets £1O/7.50. Details (01235) 522237

free of charge to churches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

Notices

Visitations This year's Visitations are being carried out by the Bishops in their Areas as follows. Clergy licensed to parishes, licensed lay ministers and churchwardens have already been summoned.

Buckingham The Bishop of Buckingham will be holding Visitations at 8pm as follows: I May at St James the Great, Hanslope for Newport and Milton Keynes Deanery 21 May at St Laurence, Winslow for Buckingham and Claydon Deanery 23 May at SS Peter and Paul, Great Missenden for Wendover and Wycombe Deanery 25 May at St Barnabas, Linslade for the Mursley and Aylesbury Deanery 8 June at St Peter, Burnham for the Burnham and Slough and Amersham Deanery.

Oxford The Bishop of Oxford will be holding Visitations at 8pm as follows4 May at St Aldate's, Oxford for the Oxford Deanery I I May at St Clements, Oxford for the Cowley Deanery.

Reading The Bishop of Reading will be holding Visitations at 8pm as follows: 2 May at St Matthew,

Editorial address: The Door, Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford 0X2 ONB.

Southcote for the Reading Deanery 3 May at St Michael, Warfield for the Bracknell, Sonriing and Maidenhead Deanery 9 May at St Nicolas, Bradfield, Newbury Deanery 10 May at St Michael, Abingdon for the Abingdon, Wallingford Deanery 16 May at Holy Cross, Sparsholt for the Wantage, Vale of the White Horse Deanery.

Dorchester The Bishop of Dorchester will be holding Visitation at 7.30pm as follows: I May at St Mary, Thame for the Aston and Cuddesdon Deanery 3 May at St Mary, Adderbury for the Deddington Deanery 8 May at St Mary, Cogges for the Witney Deanery 10 May at St Mary Magdalene, Woodstock for the Woodstock Deanery 16 May at St Mary Chipping Norton for the Chipping Norton Deanery 22 May at St Edburg, Bicester for the Bicester and Islip Deanery 23 May at Holy Trinity, Henley-on-Thames for the Henley Deanery The June issue of the Door will be ready for collection on 25 May

Telephone: 01865 208227 Fax: 01865 790470

STOP FOR TEA WITH THE DOOR We hope to include our annual church tea guide in the July DOOR. If your church offers teas or other snacks on a regular basis in the summer months and you would like to be included (no charge) then send us details by 20 May. Please tell us briefly about what you will offer (eg cream teas), and about toilet facilities and whether there is access for people with disability. Send the information to The DOOR, Church House, North Hinksey, Oxford OX2 ONB. email door@oxford.anglican.org Born in 1939 1 was sent to boarding school about 194213 run by a Miss Nash and a Miss Chase, the whereabouts of which I had no knowledge apart from it was in Buckinghamshire. With the help of a Bucks CC archivist we established the two ladies were at Astwood Vicarage at the time and although they had no record of a school subsequent search revealed this was probably a private 'Froebel' school which had been evacuated from Dover. As the vicarage was not sold by the Church until (I'm told) 1950 one assumes it was rented out during the war.

Does anyone in the Diocese hold archival records of about this time which could reveal detail about Astwood Vicarage during the war.

The Church suffered bomb damage.

If you have any information please contact Tony Ibotson (01296) 668271

Email: door@oxford.anglican.org

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